AV MOD MATERIAL: Fall 2013 OVA and Movie Guide

Welcome to the Fall 2013 Season Guide's 2nd part: OVAs and Movies! The only OVA here that will be available in North America legally is Pokémon Origins. All 4 episodes will be streamed on Nov. 15 over at the official Pokémon TV website. Are you guys and gals ready?!

Like what I blurted out in the other article, my first movie choice was Madoka Magica The Movie Part 3: Rebellion because, unlike the other two that were remakes of the series, this one follows up afterwards and focuses on Homura after all that craziness happened in the series' story. My OVA choice is Pokemon Origins because we get to see a story that's really based on the games. Hopefully, it will be fun too. My third choice (No clue, could be either a movie or an OVA) is Majocco Shimai no Yoyo to Nene because of the interesting story it seems to uncover within the trailers. Yeah, Magical Girls, Witches and Pokemon tend to be awesome to me.

Like the anime season, this season's movies and OVA's are pretty good. Quickly glancing at the list of OVA's, I'm most interested in the new Gargantia OVA. I had watched the series before to its completion and I liked it. So watching what happens after does not sound like a bad idea. I'm also looking forward to Pokemon Origins because the movie seems to be putting a different twist on the Pokemon series and I would like to see where this goes. Lastly, I'm looking forward to the new Captain Harlock movie. I haven't seen the original series or the reboot series, but the trailers for the CGI film look really nice. The CGI, for example, looks really well made. Everything from Captain Harlock to the people around him looks really detailed and fluid.

Acura and I are big fans of Gargantia, but I'll let him take that show. I'll choose Free. I never thought I be into Free since it's targeted towards another audience. I tried it last summer because I wanted to try something different. I enjoyed it more than Sunday Without Godbut equally as Blood Lad and Silver Spoon. For movies, I'm going with Case Closed x Lupin III crossover. It has been a while since I watched the shows on TV with those "Rabbit Ears." I'm more attached to Case Closed than Lupin III because some cases really touched me deep such as the Christmas case with the Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer jingle.

OVA

Chihayafuru

Release Date: September 13Bundled with Limited Edition manga vol. 22.

The story follows a schoolgirl named Chihaya who completes i the Japanese card game of Karuta.

Illya (Illyasviel von Einzbern) is a typical young girl attending Homurabara Academy who just happens to have a slight crush on her brother-in-law. Then, one night, a magic wand called Magical Ruby falls from the sky into her bath and tricks her into signing a contract...

Nanase Haruka loved to be in the water - loved swimming. In elementary school, Nanase Haruka, Tachibana Makoto, Matsuoka Rin, and Hazuki Nagisa attended the same swimming class together. Time passed, and as Haruka was living an uneventful high school life, he suddenly encountered Rin again. Rin challenged Haruka to a race and showed him how much stronger he had become. Soon enough, Makoto and Nagisa also rejoined the group, and along with a new classmate, Ryugazaki Rei, they established the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club.

In the distant future, a planet covered almost entirely by oceans, known as Earth, grows in space. Ledo, a boy who has known nothing but fighting all his life, saw the sea there for the first time. On its vast, faintly green waters, men organize huge naval fleets and live modest but active lives. Due to language and cultural barriers, Ledo lives as a lonely foreigner... but he's not alone. Ledo is just beginning his days on this green planet, asking what he must do to survive here, and what he is living for.

Genshiken Nidaime

Release Date: September 9Bundled with BD vol. 1

Another college semester begins and the returning members of Genshiken attempt to recruit new club members. Three new members join the club, attracted by Ogiue's BL drawings. She welcomes the new members but fears the club will become a "rotten girls" haven for yaoi fans.

Hidamari Sketch: Sae/Hiro Sotsugyou-hen

Release Date: Nov. 27

Hidamari Sketch's story centers around a high school for the arts and the everyday life of some of its students. The new anime will center on the graduation of the characters Sae and Hiro.

Infinite Stratos 2: Long Vacation OVA

Release Date: October 30No summary for OVA. See summary for IS2 above.

Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple

Release Date: Oct. 16Bundled with Limited Edition manga volume 53

Shirahama Kenichi is an average student who has earned the nickname "Weak Legs" from always getting bullied. One day, he meets a cute girl named Furinji Miu who helps him builld the courage to begin training at a mysterious dojo where she lives.

Kill Me Baby

Release Date: October 16Bundled with the franchise's best album CD "Kill Me Baby Super."

Sonya is an assassin attending a normal school. Yasuna is an airhead who follows Sonya around, unaware of how dangerous she is. This adaptation of a 4-panel comic focuses on the adorable ultra-violence that erupts when they try to get along.

The story follows the "forbidden" love between a boy and his two stepsisters. The episode will feature the return of the Kiryuu sisters.

Maken-ki! Takeru Nyotaika?!

Release Date: September 30Bundled with Limited Edition volume 11

The group decides to take a trip to the beach to get a long deserved brake, yet Takeru has been forced into intense training to control his Maken. during takeru's training an emergency at the beach cuts his training short...

The story is based on the Lucky Star Moe Drill game series and centers around big sister Hinata Miyakawa and little sister Hikage Miyakawa's impoverished daily life at home (due to Hinata's wasteful habits) and Hikage's life at elementary school.

Hachiman Hikigaya is an antisocial high school student with no friends or girlfriend and as a result has a distorted view on life. When he sees his classmates talking excitedly about their adolescent lives, he mutters, "They're a bunch of liars." When he is asked about his future dreams, he responds, "Not working." A teacher gets Hachiman to join the volunteer "service club," which happens to have the school's prettiest girl, Yukino Yukinoshita.

Takatoshi is a new student in a recently gender-integrated high school, and is asked to join the student council as the vice present. Thus begins his days as the only normal boy among 3 female student council officers.

Senyu 2

Release Date: October 25Bundled with Blu-ray Vol. 3

Long ago, there lived an evil being who reigned over the world through fear, called Satan Rchimedes. He invaded the human world with his many demon underlings, spreading madness and chaos everywhere. One thousand years ago, this menace was sealed by the hero Creation, and peace returned to the world.

Toward the Terra

Release Date: September 13Unreleased footage bundled with BD release.

In the far future, humanity has left behind in an environmentally destroyed Terra and began colonization in order to reproduce their home. Humanity, now ruled by a super computer that controls the birth of children, sees the emergence of a new race called the "Mu." The Mu, now hidden from the rest of humanity, have one dream, to return home, to Terra...

Yozakura Quartet ~ Tsuki ni Naku~

Release Date: October 9Bundled with Limited Edition manga volume 14.

"Tsuki ni Naku" will take the story content from volume 11, which tells the story of when land god Yuuhi meets his companion Maria-bell.

Movies

Bayonetta: Bloody Fate

Release Date: November 23

Five hundred years ago, two orders watched over the destiny of the world: the Lumen Sages and the Umbran Witches, light and dark. Together they ensured that the passage of history unfolded as it should, watching over it with two great treasures known only as the Eyes of the World. However, a grave transgression pit both sides against each other in a terrible war. Eventually, the Umbran Witches proved victorious over the Lumen Sages, but the hatred and superstition sown among the people of the world against their kind soon led to persecution and death for all but one of them.

Five hundred years later, Bayonetta is awakened from her sleep within a coffin that had been sealed and left at the bottom of a lake, far from the war and from the notice of anyone else. However, she awakens without the memories of her past. To make things worse, angels have noticed her awakening and have descended to destroy her. Unfortunately for them, she proves more than able to hold her own. With her favorite weapons in hand and with the help of several unlikely allies, she sets out to discover the truth of her origins and bring an end to the destruction.

'Captain Harlock" is the CG remake of the 1979 anime series Space Pirate Captain Harlock. In the original manga, the titular character fights against an inept world government with his crew of 40 on the invincible space battleship Arcadia.

One day, Mana Aida received a wedding dress from her mother and grandmother that they had worn in the past. While thinking about who she would wear this beside someday, a mysterious man named Matthew appears, and Mana is thrown back into the past. She was happy to see her grandmother she loved and her old dog Maro, but she then realizes that Arisu and Rikka aren't there because memories have been altered. In order to save precious memories, the future, dreams and hope, Mana transforms into Cure Heart.

The strongest Hunters that once existed in the Hunters Association were split into “light” and “dark”, and each walked down their respective paths. The “dark” side begins moving in order to massacre all Hunters! What actions will Gon take when the many crimes of Netero and the Hunters Association are unveiled...!?

"Unbelievable" Zorori is a prankster fox determined to become the Prince of Mischief, with his very own castle and beautiful bride. While is notorious for his prank-making schemes, his ill-meaning plots often backfire against him, and can usually end up even benefiting or cheering up his targets, much to his dismay. Nevertheless, Zorori has the wits and intelligence to wriggle out of the tightest of all spots, and journeys with a pair of twin boars, Ishishi and Noshishi, in order to fulfill his long wished-for goal and at last prove to his deceased mother, Mama Zorori that he truly holds the potential to achieve his dreams.

The adaptation will completely retell the story of the TV special, and last for 3 chapters. The Meitantei Conan: Shikkoku no Chaser manga by Yutaka Abe and Jirō Maruten will not appear during the special manga's serialization, and will restart in the magazine's first issue of 2014.

The story follows sisters who are magical girls: the great Picture Book Level witch Yoyo and the best Practice Book Level witch Nene. Yoyo and Nene live in a forest where they run a famous store for magic spells, and the two are quite skilled despite being young, but for some reason they always cause an uproar.

Madoka Kaname. Once a normal girl who led a happy life, she sacrificed herself to save other magical girls from the cruel fate that awaited them. Unable to let her memories of Madoka die, magical girl Homura Akemi continues to fight alone in the world that Madoka left behind, dreaming of meeting that nostalgic smiling face one more time...

In the game's story, there is a hidden time known as the "Dark Hour" that exists between one day and the next when all movement in the town stops. During this time, terrible creatures called Shadows roam, and a group of high school students in the city of Iwatodai are drawn into the Dark Hour to fight these creatures and explore the mysterious tower of Tartarus. This group uses weapons called Evokers that are used to summon Personas.

Mikiya Kokuto finds himself intrigued by two things. The first is by Shiki Ryougi a beautiful, yet rather unsociable, girl and the other is the strange series of violent deaths that start occuring in his town. As he attempts to get closer to Shiki, he soon learns that the two are connected and that there are many supernatural forces at work which could very likely get him killed as well.

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Release Date: November 13

The famous Japanese folktale Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) centers on princess named Kaguya who was discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.Taketori Monogatari has inspired dozens of manga and anime stories, such as Reiko Shimizu'sKaguya Hime and Arina Tanemura's Sakura-Hime Kaden.

Agreed! Persona 3 the game is freaking amazing and if the movie is have as good as the game I am sold. Excited for the Madoka movie but worried they will ruin it...the ending of the show was so perfect....